News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content.

More websites, including Wikipedia and academic archives, are grousing about AI freeloaders that siphon their information. They’re fighting back.

These AI systems are already endangering public health — offering false assurances, bad advice and fake credentials — while hiding behind regulatory loopholes.

The news: The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has announced that it will start blocking AI bots from visiting websites it hosts by default. What bots?

These AI systems are already endangering public health — offering false assurances, bad advice and fake credentials — while hiding behind regulatory loopholes.

X is testing AI-generated Community Notes to fact-check posts in real time. Here’s how the system works, why it’s risky — and what it means for your feed.

X is testing AI-generated Community Notes to fact-check posts in real time. Here’s how the system works, why it’s risky — and what it means for your feed.

Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be given the option to allow — or block — AI crawlers.